$ nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. $ ubuntu-drivers devices == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd000024B8sv00001028sd00000A69bc03sc00…

That’s not the stock kernel. That would look like 5.15.0-50-generic sudo apt install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-20.04

You’re running a non-standard kernel with missing or incompatible headers so the driver doesn’t compile. Please return to the standard 5.15 kernel.

[image] pratheek.ponnuru: 5.15.25-051525-generic Like i said, I used the 5.15 too..

Hi there, even after installing the above kernel, I still have the same issue. PFA the bug report. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (428.2 KB)

Hi there, could you please advise on the next steps?

The driver is installed and working fine now, the nvidia gpu is in on-demand mode now. prime-select should also work now.

You are right. It is weird, last i checked, i was still getting the same error. Now i can see the proper output. Anyways, thank you very much for your help!

Hi, I have a similar issue running on 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver), the problem surfaced few days ago when an user upgraded GCC, now the NVIDIA driver does no load. This is a Lambda Labs workstation, and I have tried to uninstall and reinstalled the Lambda Stack for deep learning that is supposed to…

Please open a new thread, this is about to be closed. In your case, the nvidia driver is installed fine, loads without errors but is then inaccessible for some reason.

Unable to load Nvidia Driver for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Graphics / Linux Linux

pratheek.ponnuru October 19, 2022, 11:47am 3

Like i said, I used the 5.15 too..

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